Washing-machine



NITED STATES ISRAEL E. SMITH, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,052, dated March 6,1866.

I an end elevation; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section Fig. 4, a transversesection Fig. 5, elevation of top; Fig. 6, section of ball, showing theloading; Fig. 7, enlarged section of a slat.

This machine consists of a revolving cylinder, inside of which theclothes are introduced and conned by a hinged door. This revolvingcylinder D, formed of slats grooved on the inside and screwed onto theend pieces, and placed half an inch apart to allow the water to passfreely, is hung in an oblong box, A, the 'shafts working on two movableplates of iron, B, with four shaft-holes in each, affixed to the outsideof the box A, and arranged in such a manner that the cylinder can beraised or lowered in the suds-box A with a View to the greater or lesserimmersion of the clothes.

The plates B B are held in position by the movable braces a a.

Twenty-four wooden balls, G, heavily loaded with lead, are introducedinto the cylinder, upon every revolution of which the clothes are rubbedand washed between thc loadedballs and the grooved slats forming theinside of the cylinder.

I claim- The combination of the slattcd cylinder D. the balls C C, andthe adjusting-plates B B, held in place by the braces a a, the wholearranged and combined, as above described, for the purpose and in themanner herein set forth. F

Y ISRAEL E. SMITH. Witnesses:

EDWARD HAVILAND, T. K. WHITE.

